Accession number
PML 140273.28
Creator
Charlet, Nicolas-Toussaint, 1792-1845.
Published
[Paris] : Chez Gihaut, B.ard. des Italiens, No. 5, [1822]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date from La Combe.
Companion piece to Charlet's "Infanterie légère française. Voltigeur" (La Combe 205); according to La Combe the two prints were published as a set under the title "Deux costumes d'infanterie".
Signed by the artist within image; lettered "Lith. de Villain, rue de Sèvres. No 11" directly below image at lower right; imprint directly below image at lower left.
Comprises plate 54 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Library's copy is folded across the center and mounted on bound stub.
Companion piece to Charlet's "Infanterie légère française. Voltigeur" (La Combe 205); according to La Combe the two prints were published as a set under the title "Deux costumes d'infanterie".
Signed by the artist within image; lettered "Lith. de Villain, rue de Sèvres. No 11" directly below image at lower right; imprint directly below image at lower left.
Comprises plate 54 of v. 1 of a 5 v. set of albums containing a collection of 496 lithographs by Charlet, including published suites of plates and individually published prints.
Library's copy is folded across the center and mounted on bound stub.
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 400 x 275 mm; sheet: 530 x 345 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a standing soldier, holding a rifle; behind him another soldier escorts prisoners and holds their flag in his hand; in the background a landscape with buildings, hills and fields.
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